The purpose of this course is to prepare student athletes to be successful at the University. Classes focus on academic skills, career planning, and personal well being.

The purpose of this course is to prepare student athletes to be successful at the University. Classes focus on academic skills, career planning, and personal well being.

The purpose of this course is to prepare student athletes to be successful at the University. Classes focus on academic skills, career planning, and personal well being.

The OASIS Seminar: Moving Forward is a one-credit PASS/FAIL course, specifically designed to assist undeclared, second semester students who are on probation or third semester students returning to the University after serving an academic suspension. The seminar provides opportunities for students to enhance/improve skills, behaviors, and attitudes necessary for success at the University.

The purpose of this course is to prepare student athletes to be successful at the University. Classes focus on academic skills, career planning, and personal well being.

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In this class, students will meet and form teams to identify an environmental monitoring project they would like to design and implement. After projects are identified, we will use weekly class sessions for roll-up your sleeves working sessions on these projects. In these sessions you will (1) utilize online educational material to learn the technologies needed to build your device; (2) work iteratively, to develop and test a project prototype; and (3) (hopefully) develop a working system.

This course will focus on the application of knowledge of animal behavior in order to solve wildlife conservation problems. Students will learn about how theory and data gathered through traditional and new techniques in animal behavior and behavioral ecology can be used to understand the impact of ongoing threats such as habitat fragmentation, over harvesting, invasive species, and climate change to biodiversity. The course will include local as well as global examples. A background in evolution and genetics will be helpful.

This course provides the genetic basis for solving conservation problems. Major topics include application of molecular genetic techniques to conversation problems and fundamentals of population genetics.

Field based instruction in plant identification - chiefly of trees and shrubs native to New England. Ecological requirements of species important for timber, wildlife and/or biodiversity considerations. Field trips to state and University forests/wildlife management areas to learn to recognize plants where they grow naturally on the landscape.